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Sg1Hellfire's avatar
Aug 05, 2014

ReadyNAS Rn 104 Drive contigents

Hi there until last week i use a Ready NAs Dou V1 . yesterday i upgraded to the rn104 Ready nas and i have use google and the forum but there is not the wright answer for my question.

on my old nas i can set maximum gb space for each user in the rn104 i cant find where i can do this.

exmaple:
user 1 50GB space max
user 2 25 GB space max

how can i setup this feature in the old dou i can write it for each user at quota but i can't find any point in the user interface on the rn104 and the ssh commandline is at this time not enabled,

thanks for help

greats chris from germany

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  • I am pretty sure that you can't set quotas for users within the GUI.
    As for SSH, I think this is doable (Time Machine gets its quota after all) but I don't know how and I don't know if all the protocols will be supported.
    I think BTRFS has quota support but this requires specific versions and I'm not sure what they have available on the ReadyNAS since they tend to backport many things.

    We expect a major version, 6.2.0. Although nothing has been said for its release date nor its new features, it's been said that it will come after the 6.1.9 (which is in beta stage) unless there were security concerns requiring a 6.1.10.
  • Ok many thanks for the answer i will wait or i have to make settings ind the AD in my domain but this will cost some work . my hope was to set this seting only on the NAS so that my domain user have no specific qouta in the domain .

    I will just take a look on the new firmwares thank you
  • As said I can't warranty this will be in it. But I guess this is a requested feature so this is entirely possible.
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Netgear hasn't said a lot about on what will be in 6.2. They've mentioned disk spin down, but not much else.
  • Yep, disk spin down and the fact there was no 6.1.10 planned unless needed for security purposes, I've seen nothing else either.
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    StephenB wrote:
    Netgear hasn't said a lot about on what will be in 6.2. They've mentioned disk spin down, but not much else.
    xeltros wrote:
    Yep, disk spin down and the fact there was no 6.1.10 planned unless needed for security purposes, I've seen nothing else either.

    There are good reasons why they don't pre-announce. Plans do change for lots of reasons (getting a fix for heartbleed out was one recent example). And it creates lots of issues when people purchase based on announcement of future plans.

    In this case, I suggest that you assume that user quotas won't be available in the management interface any time soon. When/if they show up in a beta, then decide if you want to use them.
  • I agree.
    There are reasons not to announce like to be able to cancel a feature that won't work properly, to spend more time testing. Depending on companies they also want to "surprise" people (Apple is known for its non-disclosure policy with big keynote announcement effect, the French ISP "free" does the same to preserve concurrential advantage and get more impact with the announcement). It's always delicate to say something you promised won't be there, while saying you added features is quite easy... More over I think Netgear is planning things according to other companies planning (like BTRFS or Debian guys or their manufacturers (for drivers)) so they have to wait for them, and if they are late on schedule then Netgear is too.
    I would clearly appreciate more transparency but this is clearly a bad bet for commercial companies in many situations, organisations providing free and open source software can provide those informations as they do not take financial risks doing it though. But for companies having auctioneers, a bad announcement means money loss and since people tend to notice more what we say rather than what we don't say, chances are that with the same missing feature, if you say unfortunately we couldn't do this, you will lose more money than if you kept it silent because people will think about the potential value of that feature and/or think you are incompetent.

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